Retraining the Brain - Sheila Rauch, Carmen McLean

Retraining the Brain

Applied Neuroscience in Exposure Therapy for PTSD
Buch | Softcover
219 Seiten
2021
American Psychological Association (Verlag)
978-1-4338-3404-2 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
A clinician-driven, research-based review of the theory and applicable neuroscience informing prolonged exposure therapy, a cognitive behavioral approach designed specifically for PTSD patients to reduce pathological anxiety and related emotions.  
Rauch and McLean bridge the gap between neuroscience research and the treatment of PTSD patients.

Individuals with PTSD have developed automatic associations between specific stimuli and traumatic events. As a result, these individuals experience intense fear when exposed to the stimuli, even though the original threat is no longer present. 

This book presents prolonged exposure therapy (PE), a specific manualized exposure therapy program for PTSD. A variant of exposure therapy, PE is a cognitive behavioral approach designed to reduce pathological anxiety and related emotions by helping patients approach relatively safe but distress-provoking thoughts, memories, situations, and stimuli, with the goal of reducing unhelpful emotional reactions to those stimuli.

Informed by extensive research but written for clinicians, the book explains how neuroscience can guide our application of the three key components of PE: (1) psychoeducation about the nature of trauma, (2) in vivo exposure to trauma reminders, and (3) imaginal exposure to the memory of the traumatic event followed by processing of the imaginal and other exposures.

Sheila A. M. Rauch, PhD, ABPP, is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine and serves as deputy director of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and director of mental health research and program evaluation at the VA Atlanta Healthcare System. She has been developing programs, conducting research, and providing treatment for PTSD and anxiety disorders for over 20 years. She has published scholarly articles, chapters, and books on anxiety disorders and PTSD, focusing on neurobiology and factors involved in the development, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders. Carmen P. McLean, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at the National Center for PTSD’s Dissemination and Training Division at the Palo Alto VA and a clinical associate professor (affiliate) at Stanford University. She’s an associate editor for Cognitive Behavioral Practice and a 2018 recipient of the Anne Marie Albano Early Career Award for Excellence in the Integration of Science and Practice from the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. She’s published over 100 articles and chapters on PTSD and anxiety. Her research examines ways to increase the reach of exposure therapy for PTSD by addressing implementation barriers and testing eHealth interventions.   

Preface

I. Overview of Prolonged Exposure and Theory
Chapter 1. Theory and Prolonged Exposure    
Chapter 2. What Is Prolonged Exposure Therapy?

II. Neuroscience Methods for Clinicians
Chapter 3. Neurosteroids, Cortisol, and Other Neurochemicals 
Chapter 4. Imaging 
Chapter 5. Electroencephalography 
Chapter 6. Psychophysiology
Chapter 7. Genetics and Genomics 

III. Applied Neuroscience: Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
Chapter 8. Psychoeducation and Neuroscience
Chapter 9. In Vivo Exposure and Neuroscience
Chapter 10. Imaginal Exposure and Neuroscience
Chapter 11. Processing and Neuroscience

IV. Future Directions
Chapter 12. Augmentation of Prolonged Exposure
Chapter 13. New Models of Care Delivery

References
Glossary
 

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Washington DC
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Klinische Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Persönlichkeitsstörungen
ISBN-10 1-4338-3404-9 / 1433834049
ISBN-13 978-1-4338-3404-2 / 9781433834042
Zustand Neuware
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